Project Success: Level 2
correlated to
 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards
 Common Core Standards for ELA (Grades 11-12)
 GED Reasoning through Language Assessment (RLA) Targets
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
Reading: Literature
Key Ideas and Details
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.1
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.2
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1
Cite strong and thorough
textual evidence to support
analysis of what the text says
explicitly as well as inferences
drawn from the text, including
determining where the text
leaves matters uncertain.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more
themes or central ideas of a
text and analyze their
development over the course
of the text, including how they
interact and build on one
another to produce a complex
account; provide an objective
summary of the text.
R.3.2 Make inferences about
plot/sequence of events,
characters/people, settings, or ideas in
texts.
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Reading (text, activities,
and skill): Make inferences, 125
Active Teach DVD: Use Audio Bank of
article about body language.
R.2.6 Identify a theme, or identify which
element(s) in a text support a theme.
R.5.1 Analyze how a particular sentence,
paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the
overall structure of a text and contributes
to the development of the ideas.
R.3.3 Analyze relationships within texts,
including how events are important in
relation to plot or conflict; how people,
ideas, or events are connected, developed,
or distinguished; how events contribute to
theme or relate to key ideas; or how a
setting or context shapes structure and
meaning.
R.3.5 Analyze the roles that details play in
complex literary or informational texts.
Project Success 2: Students can use
the following skills to explore literary
selections: Reading (text, activities, and
skill): Predict the topic, 15, Find the
main idea, 30, Find details, 80, Retell,
97
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.3
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3
Analyze the impact of the
author’s choices regarding how
to develop and relate elements
of a story or drama (e.g.,
where a story is set, how the
action is ordered, how the
characters are introduced and
developed).
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
R.3.2 Make inferences about
plot/sequence of events,
characters/people, settings, or ideas in
texts.
Project Success, Level 2
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Write a short story, 144
R.3.3 Analyze relationships within texts,
including how events are important in
relation to plot or conflict; how people,
ideas, or events are connected, developed,
or distinguished; how events contribute to
theme or relate to key ideas; or how a
setting or context shapes structure and
meaning.
Craft and Structure
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.4
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4
Determine the meaning of
words and phrases as they are
used in the text, including
figurative and connotative
meanings; analyze the impact
of specific word choices on
meaning and tone, including
words with multiple meanings
or language that is particularly
fresh, engaging, or beautiful.
(Include Shakespeare as well
as other authors.)
R.4.1/L4.1 Determine the meaning of
words and phrases as they are used in a
text, including determining connotative
and figurative meanings from context.
R.4.3/L4.3 Analyze the impact of specific
words, phrases, or figurative language in
text, with a focus on an author's intent to
convey information or construct an
argument.
Project Success 2: Vocabulary
Learning Strategy: Group by Meaning,
18, Group by Function, 32, Draw
Pictures, 46, Write Your First Language,
60, Write Personal Sentences, 74, Write
words that go together, 88, Make Word
webs, 102, Group words by number of
syllables, 116, Group words by part of
speech, 130, Write a short story, 144
Active Teach DVD: Flashcards include
correct pronunciation of unit word lists.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
vocabulary skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.5
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5
Analyze how an author’s
choices concerning how to
structure specific parts of a
text (e.g., the choice of where
to begin or end a story, the
choice to provide a comedic or
tragic resolution) contribute to
its overall structure and
meaning as well as its
aesthetic impact.
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
R.3.1 Order sequences of events in texts.
R.3.2 Make inferences about
plot/sequence of events,
characters/people, settings, or ideas in
texts.
R.3.3 Analyze relationships within texts,
including how events are important in
relation to plot or conflict; how people,
ideas, or events are connected, developed,
or distinguished; how events contribute to
theme or relate to key ideas; or how a
setting or context shapes structure and
meaning.
Project Success, Level 2
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Reading: Find the main
idea, 30, Look at headings, 39; also
see: Practical Skills: Describe people,
29; Reading: How to Describe Yourself,
30–31
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.6
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.6
Analyze a case in which
grasping a point of view
requires distinguishing what is
directly stated in a text from
what is really meant (e.g.,
satire, sarcasm, irony, or
understatement).
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Reading: Understand
author’s purpose, 56, Make inferences,
125
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.7
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.7
Analyze multiple
interpretations of a story,
drama, or poem (e.g.,
recorded or live production of
a play or recorded novel or
poetry), evaluating how each
version interprets the source
text. (Include at least one play
by Shakespeare and one play
by an American dramatist.)
Project Success is a digital and print
English program focusing on students’
future aspirations and on their current
realities. Audio accounts of each
literary selection are seamlessly
integrated in the multimedia platform.
Project Success 2: Reading, 15, 30,
39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
(RL.9-10.8 not applicable to literature)
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.9
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.9
Demonstrate knowledge of
eighteenth-, nineteenth- and
early-twentieth-century
foundational works of
American literature, including
how two or more texts from
the same period treat similar
themes or topics.
Project Success is a digital and print
English program focusing on students’
future aspirations and on their current
realities. Readings provide opportunities
for students to match readings to a
variety of sources, illustrations, and
types of information.
Project Success 2: Reading, 15, 30,
39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.1
0
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1112.10 By the end of grade 11,
read and comprehend
literature, including stories,
dramas, and poems, in the
grades 11-CCR text complexity
band proficiently, with
scaffolding as needed at the
high end of the range.
By the end of grade 12, read
and comprehend literature,
including stories, dramas, and
poems, at the high end of the
grades 11-CCR text complexity
band independently and
proficiently.
Each lesson in Project Success includes
readings focusing on real-world
activities of students in our dynamic
world. Students can use the reading
skills developed in the program to
analyze fiction.
Project Success 2: Reading: Predict
the topic, 15, Find the main idea, 30,
Look at headings, 39, Understand
author’s purpose, 56, Skimming, 71,
Find details, 80, Retell, 97, Scanning,
112, Make inferences, 125, Ask
questions, 134
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
Reading: Informational Text
Key Ideas and Details
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.1
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.1
Cite strong and thorough
textual evidence to support
analysis of what the text says
explicitly as well as inferences
drawn from the text, including
determining where the text
leaves matters uncertain.
R.2.3 Make sentence level inferences
about details that support main ideas.
R.2.7 Make evidence based
generalizations or hypotheses based on
details in text, including clarifications,
extensions, or applications of main ideas
to new situations.
R.3.4 Infer relationships between ideas in
a text (e.g., an implicit cause and effect,
parallel, or contrasting relationship).
W.1 Determine the details of what is
explicitly stated and make logical
inferences or valid claim that square with
textual evidence.
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.2
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.2
Determine two or more central
ideas of a text and analyze
their development over the
course of the text, including
how they interact and build on
one another to provide a
complex analysis; provide an
objective summary of the text.
R2.1 Comprehend explicit details and
main ideas in text.
R.2.2 Summarize details and ideas in text.
R.2.4 Infer implied main ideas in
paragraphs or whole texts.
R.2.5 Determine which detail(s)
support(s) a main idea.
R.2.8 Draw conclusions or make
generalizations that require synthesis of
multiple main ideas in text.
R.3.5 Analyze the roles that details play in
complex literary or informational texts.
Project Success 2: Reading (text,
activities, and skill): Reading: Make
inferences, 125
Project Success 2: In the What do
you think? activity at the end of most
lessons, students analyze, evaluate,
and infer the content of the lesson to
other contexts and situations. For
examples, see pages: 6, 8, 10, 12, 15,
20, 22, 24, 28, 30, 34, 36, 38, 41, 43,
44, 48, 50, 53, 56, 57, 58, 62, 63, 64,
66, 70, 71, 76, 78, 80, 81, 83, 86, 90,
93, 94, 99, 100, 104, 107, 108, 111,
114, 118, 121, 122, 125, 128, 132,
135, 136, 141, 142
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
Project Success 2: Reading (text,
activities, and skill): Reading: Find the
main idea, 30, Find details, 80, Retell,
97, Make inferences, 125
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.3
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.3
Analyze a complex set of ideas
or sequence of events and
explain how specific
individuals, ideas, or events
interact and develop over the
course of the text.
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
R.5.2 Analyze the structural relationship
between adjacent sections of text (e.g.,
how one paragraph develops or refines a
key concept or how one idea is
distinguished from another).
Project Success 2: Reading (text,
activities, and skill): Look at headings,
39; also see: Reading (text, activities,
and skill): Predict the topic, 15, Find
the main idea, 30, Skimming, 71,
Scanning, 112; Writing (with model):
Write instructions, 37
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
R.4.1/L4.1 Determine the meaning of
words and phrases as they are used in a
text, including determining connotative
and figurative meanings from context.
Project Success 2: Vocabulary
Learning Strategy: Group by Meaning,
18, Group by Function, 32, Draw
Pictures, 46, Write Your First Language,
60, Write Personal Sentences, 74, Write
words that go together, 88, Make Word
webs, 102, Group words by number of
syllables, 116, Group words by part of
speech, 130, Write a short story, 144
Active Teach DVD: Flashcards include
correct pronunciation of unit word lists.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
vocabulary skills.
Craft and Structure
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.4
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.4
Determine the meaning of
words and phrases as they are
used in a text, including
figurative, connotative, and
technical meanings; analyze
how an author uses and
refines the meaning of a key
term or terms over the course
of a text (e.g., how Madison
defines faction in Federalist
No. 10).
R.4.2/L4.2 Analyze how meaning or tone
is affected when one word is replaced with
another.
R.4.3/L4.3 Analyze the impact of specific
words, phrases, or figurative language in
text, with a focus on an author's intent to
convey information or construct an
argument.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.5
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.5
Analyze and evaluate the
effectiveness of the structure
an author uses in his or her
exposition or argument,
including whether the structure
makes points clear,
convincing, and engaging.
R.5.1 Analyze how a particular sentence,
paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the
overall structure of a text and contributes
to the development of the ideas.
R.5.4 Analyze how the structure of a
paragraph, section, or passage shapes
meaning, emphasizes key ideas, or
supports an author's purpose.
Project Success 2: Reading (text,
activities, and skill): Look at headings,
39; also see: Reading (text, activities,
and skill): Predict the topic, 15, Find
the main idea, 30, Skimming, 71,
Scanning, 112; Writing (with model):
Write instructions, 37
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.6
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.6
Determine an author’s point of
view or purpose in a text in
which the rhetoric is
particularly effective, analyzing
how style and content
contribute to the power,
persuasiveness or beauty of
the text.
R.6.1 Determine an author's point of view
or purpose of a text.
R.6.2 Analyze how the author
distinguishes his or her position from that
of others or how an author acknowledges
and responds to conflicting evidence or
viewpoints
R.6.3 Infer an author's implicit as well as
explicit purposes based on details in text.
R.6.4 Analyze how an author uses
rhetorical techniques to advance his or her
point of view or achieve a specific purpose
(e.g., analogies, enumerations, repetition
and parallelism, juxtaposition of opposites,
qualifying statements).
R.5.4 Analyze how the structure of a
paragraph, section, or passage shapes
meaning, emphasizes key ideas, or
supports an author's purpose.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Project Success 2: Reading:
Understand author’s purpose, 56;
Writing (with model): Write a
restaurant review, 26, Write a letter of
recommendation, 69, Express thanks
and congratulations, 142
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.7
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.7
Integrate and evaluate
multiple sources of information
presented in different media or
formats (e.g., visually,
quantitatively) as well as in
words in order to address a
question or solve a problem.
R.9.1/R.7.1 Draw specific comparisons
between two texts that address similar
themes or topics or between information
presented in different formats (e.g.,
between information presented in text and
information or data summarized in a table
or timeline).
Project Success is a digital and print
English program focusing on students’
future aspirations and on their current
realities. Audio accounts of each
literary selection are seamlessly
integrated in the multimedia platform.
R.7.2 Analyze how data or quantitative
and/or visual information extends,
clarifies, or contradicts information in text,
or determine how data supports an
author's argument.
Project Success 2: Reading, 15, 30,
39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134;
Practical Skills: Read a train schedule
online, 137, Read a map online, 139;
Job-Seeking Skills: Look at job ads
online, 45
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
R.7.3 Compare two passages that present
related ideas or themes in different genre
or formats (e.g., a feature article and an
online FAQ or fact sheet) in order to
evaluate differences in scope, purpose,
emphasis, intended audience, or overall
impact when comparing.
R.7.4 Compare two passages that present
related ideas or themes in different genre
or formats in order to synthesize details,
draw conclusions, or apply information to
new situations.
R.9.2 Compare two passages in similar or
closely related genre that share ideas or
themes, focusing on similarities and/or
differences in perspective, tone, style,
structure, purpose, or overall impact.
Project Success, Level 2
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.8
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.8
Delineate and evaluate the
reasoning in seminal U.S.
texts, including the application
of constitutional principles and
use of legal reasoning (e.g., in
U.S. Supreme Court majority
opinions and dissents) and the
premises, purposes, and
arguments in works of public
advocacy (e.g., The Federalist,
presidential addresses).
R.6.4 Analyze how an author uses
rhetorical techniques to advance his or her
point of view or achieve a specific purpose
(e.g., analogies, enumerations, repetition
and parallelism, juxtaposition of opposites,
qualifying statements).
R.8.1 Delineate the specific steps of an
argument the author puts forward,
including how the argument's claims build
on one another.
R.8.2 Identify specific pieces of evidence
an author uses in support of claims or
conclusions.
R.8.3 Evaluate the relevance and
sufficiency of evidence offered in support
of a claim.
R.8.5 Assess whether the reasoning is
valid; identify fallacious reasoning in an
argument and evaluate its impact.
R.8.6 Identify an underlying premise or
assumption in an argument and evaluate
the logical support and evidence provided.
R.9.3 Compare two argumentative
passages on the same topic that present
opposing claims (either main or supporting
claims( and analyze how each text
emphasizes different evidence or advances
a different interpretation of facts.
Project Success, Level 2
Project Success 2: Reading:
Understand author’s purpose, 56;
Writing (with model): Write a
restaurant review, 26, Write a letter of
recommendation, 69, Express thanks
and congratulations, 142
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.9
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.9
Analyze seventeenth-,
eighteenth-, and nineteenthcentury foundational U.S.
documents of historical and
literary significance (including
The Declaration of
Independence, the Preamble
to the Constitution, the Bill of
Rights, and Lincoln’s Second
Inaugural Address) for their
themes, purposes, and
rhetorical features.
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
Project Success 2: Students can use
the following skills to analyze significant
documents from U.S. history. Reading:
Predict the topic, 15, Find the main
idea, 30, Look at headings, 39,
Understand author’s purpose, 56,
Skimming, 71, Find details, 80, Retell,
97, Scanning, 112, Make inferences,
125, Ask questions, 134
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.1
0
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1112.10 By the end of grade 11,
read and comprehend literary
nonfiction in the grades 11CCR text complexity band
proficiently, with scaffolding as
needed at the high end of the
range.
By the end of grade 12, read
and comprehend literary
nonfiction at the high end of
the grades 11-CCR text
complexity band independently
and proficiently.
Writing
Text Types and Purposes
Project Success 2: Reading, 15, 30,
39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134;
Practical Skills, 7, 15, 16, 23, 27, 29,
40, 43, 44, 51, 55, 58, 63, 68, 72, 82,
84, 86, 92, 93, 94, 106, 109, 113, 122,
123, 124, 137, 139, 141
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.W.
1
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.1
Write arguments to support
claims in an analysis of
substantive topics or texts,
using valid reasoning and
relevant and sufficient
evidence.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.1a
Introduce precise,
knowledgeable claim(s),
establish the significance of
the claim(s), distinguish the
claim(s) from alternate or
opposing claims, and create an
organization that logically
sequences claim(s),
counterclaims, reasons, and
evidence.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.1b
Develop claim(s) and
counterclaims fairly and
thoroughly, supplying the most
relevant evidence for each
while pointing out the
strengths and limitations of
both in a manner that
anticipates the audience’s
knowledge level, concerns,
values, and possible biases.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.1c
Use words, phrases, and
clauses as well as varied
syntax to link the major
sections of the text, create
cohesion, and clarify the
relationships between claim(s)
and reasons, between reasons
and evidence, and between
claim(s) and counterclaims.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.1d
Establish and maintain a
formal style and objective tone
while attending to the norms
and conventions of the
discipline in which they are
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
W.2 Produce an extended analytic
response in which the writer introduces
the idea(s) or claim(s) clearly; creates an
organization that logically sequences
information; develops the idea(s) or
claim(s) thoroughly with well-chosen
examples, facts, or details from the text;
and maintains a coherent focus.
Project Success, Level 2
Project Success 2: Writing (with
model): Write a restaurant review, 26,
Write a letter of recommendation, 69,
Express thanks and congratulations,
142
Active Teach DVD: Each writing
activity includes a Check Your Writing
checklist to enhance revising, editing,
and proofreading.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of writing
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.W.
2
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2
Write informative/explanatory
texts to examine and convey
complex ideas, concepts, and
information clearly and
accurately through the
effective selection,
organization, and analysis of
content.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2a
Introduce a topic; organize
complex ideas, concepts, and
information so that each new
element builds on that which
precedes it to create a unified
whole; include formatting
(e.g., headings), graphics
(e.g., figures, tables), and
multimedia when useful to
aiding comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2b
Develop the topic thoroughly
by selecting the most
significant and relevant facts,
extended definitions, concrete
details, quotations, or other
information and examples
appropriate to the audience’s
knowledge of the topic.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2c
Use appropriate and varied
transitions and syntax to link
the major sections of the text,
create cohesion, and clarify the
relationships among complex
ideas and concepts.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2d
Use precise language, domainspecific vocabulary, and
techniques such as metaphor,
simile, and analogy to manage
the complexity of the topic.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2e
Establish and maintain a
formal style and objective tone
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
W.2 Produce an extended analytic
response in which the writer introduces
the idea(s) or claim(s) clearly; creates an
organization that logically sequences
information; develops the idea(s) or
claim(s) thoroughly with well-chosen
examples, facts, or details from the text;
and maintains a coherent focus.
Project Success, Level 2
Project Success 2: Writing: Write
instructions, 37, Write a formal letter,
111
Active Teach DVD: Each writing
activity includes a Check Your Writing
checklist to enhance revising, editing,
and proofreading.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of writing
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.W.
3
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3
Write narratives to develop
real or imagined experiences
or events using effective
technique, well-chosen details,
and well-structured event
sequences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3a
Engage and orient the reader
by setting out a problem,
situation, or observation and
its significance, establishing
one or multiple point(s) of
view, and introducing a
narrator and/or characters;
create a smooth progression of
experiences or events.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3b
Use narrative techniques, such
as dialogue, pacing,
description, reflection, and
multiple plot lines, to develop
experiences, events, and/or
characters.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3c
Use a variety of techniques to
sequence events so that they
build on one another to create
a coherent whole and build
toward a particular tone and
outcome (e.g., a sense of
mystery, suspense, growth, or
resolution).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3d
Use precise words and
phrases, telling details, and
sensory language to convey a
vivid picture of the
experiences, events, setting,
and/or characters.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3e
Provide a conclusion that
follows from and reflects on
what is experienced, observed,
or resolved over the course of
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
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Project Success, Level 2
Project Success 2: Vocabulary
Learning Strategy: Write a short story,
144; also see: Writing: Write a journal
entry, 128
Active Teach DVD: Each writing
activity includes a Check Your Writing
checklist to enhance revising, editing,
and proofreading.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of writing
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
Production and Distribution of Writing
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.W.
4
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.4
Produce clear and coherent
writing in which the
development, organization,
and style are appropriate to
task, purpose, and audience.
(Grade-specific expectations
for writing types are defined in
standards 1–3 above.)
Project Success 2: Writing, 15, 30,
39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134
Active Teach DVD: Each writing
activity includes a Check Your Writing
checklist to enhance revising, editing,
and proofreading.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of writing
skills.
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.W.
5
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.5
Develop and strengthen
writing as needed by planning,
revising, editing, rewriting, or
trying a new approach,
focusing on addressing what is
most significant for a specific
purpose and audience. (Editing
for conventions should
demonstrate command of
Language standards 1–3 up to
and including grades 11–12
here.)
Project Success 2: Writing: Write an
email of request, 13, Write a restaurant
review, 26, Write instructions, 37, Write
an email for permission, 52, Write a
letter of recommendation, 69, Write a
note, 85, Write an absence letter, 95,
Write a formal letter, 111, Write a
journal entry, 128, Express thanks and
congratulations, 142
Active Teach DVD: Each writing
activity includes a Check Your Writing
checklist to enhance revising, editing,
and proofreading.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of writing
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.W.
6
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.6
Use technology, including the
Internet, to produce, publish,
and update individual or
shared writing products in
response to ongoing feedback,
including new arguments or
information.
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
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Project Success, Level 2
Students are encouraged to use the
ActiveTeach DVD and online materials
to complete each writing activity.
Project Success 2: Writing, 15, 30,
39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134
Active Teach DVD: Each writing
activity includes a Check Your Writing
checklist to enhance revising, editing,
and proofreading.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of writing
skills.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.W.
7
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.7
Conduct short as well as more
sustained research projects to
answer a question (including a
self-generated question) or
solve a problem; narrow or
broaden the inquiry when
appropriate; synthesize
multiple sources on the
subject, demonstrating
understanding of the subject
under investigation.
Project Success 2: Job-Seeking Skills:
Look at job ads online, 45, Look at job
ads in a newspaper, 59; Practical Skills:
Read a train schedule online, 137, Read
a map online, 139
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.W.
8
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.8
Gather relevant information
from multiple authoritative
print and digital sources, using
advanced searches effectively;
assess the strengths and
limitations of each source in
terms of the task, purpose,
and audience; integrate
information into the text
selectively to maintain the flow
of ideas, avoiding plagiarism
and overreliance on any one
source and following a
standard format for citation.
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
Project Success 2: Job-Seeking Skills:
Look at job ads online, 45, Look at job
ads in a newspaper, 59; Practical Skills:
Read a train schedule online, 137, Read
a map online, 139
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.W.
9
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.9
Draw evidence from literary or
informational texts to support
analysis, reflection, and
research.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.9a
Apply grades 11–12 Reading
standards to literature (e.g.,
“Demonstrate knowledge of
eighteenth-, nineteenth- and
early-twentieth-century
foundational works of
American literature, including
how two or more texts from
the same period treat similar
themes or topics”).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.9b
Apply grades 11–12 Reading
standards to literary nonfiction
(e.g., “Delineate and evaluate
the reasoning in seminal U.S.
texts, including the application
of constitutional principles and
use of legal reasoning [e.g., in
U.S. Supreme Court Case
majority opinions and
dissents] and the premises,
purposes, and arguments in
works of public advocacy [e.g.,
The Federalist, presidential
addresses]”).
Range of Writing
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
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Project Success, Level 2
Project Success 2: Reading: Predict
the topic, 15, Find the main idea, 30,
Look at headings, 39, Understand
author’s purpose, 56, Skimming, 71,
Find details, 80, Retell, 97, Scanning,
112, Make inferences, 125, Ask
questions, 134
Active Teach DVD: Includes
recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of reading
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.W.
10
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.10
Write routinely over extended
time frames (time for
research, reflection, and
revision) and shorter time
frames (a single sitting or a
day or two) for a range of
tasks, purposes, and
audiences.
Project Success, Level 2
Project Success 2: Writing: Write an
email of request, 13, Write a restaurant
review, 26, Write instructions, 37, Write
an email for permission, 52, Write a
letter of recommendation, 69, Write a
note, 85, Write an absence letter, 95,
Write a formal letter, 111, Write a
journal entry, 128, Express thanks and
congratulations, 142
Speaking & Listening
Comprehension and Collaboration
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.SL.
1
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1
Initiate and participate
effectively in a range of
collaborative discussions (oneon-one, in groups, and
teacher-led) with diverse
partners on grades 11–12
topics, texts, and issues,
building on others’ ideas and
expressing their own clearly
and persuasively.
Project Success 2: Listening and
Speaking, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 22, 24, 28,
34, 36, 38, 41, 48, 50, 53, 57, 62, 64,
66, 70, 76, 78, 81, 83, 90, 96, 98, 100,
104, 107, 110, 114, 118, 120, 126,
127, 132, 135, 138, 141
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Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1112.1a Come to discussions
prepared, having read and
researched material under
study; explicitly draw on that
preparation by referring to
evidence from texts and other
research on the topic or issue
to stimulate a thoughtful, wellreasoned exchange of ideas.
The Get Ready to Watch section of all
Listening and Speaking activities
ensures that students are ready to
examine the lesson video. The What
Do You Think Activity? provides
opportunities for students to respond to
the videos.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1112.1b Work with peers to
promote civil, democratic
discussions and decisionmaking, set clear goals and
deadlines, and establish
individual roles as needed.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1112.1c Propel conversations by
posing and responding to
questions that probe reasoning
and evidence; ensure a
hearing for a full range of
positions on a topic or issue;
clarify, verify, or challenge
ideas and conclusions; and
promote divergent and
creative perspectives.
Project Success 2: Listening and
Speaking, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 22, 24, 28,
34, 36, 38, 41, 48, 50, 53, 57, 62, 64,
66, 70, 76, 78, 81, 83, 90, 96, 98, 100,
104, 107, 110, 114, 118, 120, 126,
127, 132, 135, 138, 141
Project Success 2: Listening and
Speaking: Get Ready to Watch & What
Do You Think? 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 22, 24,
28, 34, 36, 38, 41, 48, 50, 53, 57, 62,
64, 66, 70, 76, 78, 81, 83, 90, 96, 98,
100, 104, 107, 110, 114, 118, 120,
126, 127, 132, 135, 138, 141
Project Success 2: Listening and
Speaking, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 22, 24, 28,
34, 36, 38, 41, 48, 50, 53, 57, 62, 64,
66, 70, 76, 78, 81, 83, 90, 96, 98, 100,
104, 107, 110, 114, 118, 120, 126,
127, 132, 135, 138, 141
College and Career
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Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1112.1d Respond thoughtfully to
diverse perspectives;
synthesize comments, claims,
and evidence made on all sides
of an issue; resolve
contradictions when possible;
and determine what additional
information or research is
required to deepen the
investigation or complete the
task.
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
Project Success 2: What Do You
Think? 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 22, 24, 28,
30, 34, 36, 38, 41, 43, 44, 48, 50, 53,
56, 57, 58, 62, 63, 64, 66, 70, 71, 76,
78, 80, 81, 83, 86, 90, 93, 94, 99, 100,
104, 107, 108, 111, 114, 118, 121,
122, 125, 128, 132, 135, 136, 141,
142,
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Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.SL.
2
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2
Integrate multiple sources of
information presented in
diverse formats and media
(e.g., visually, quantitatively,
orally) in order to make
informed decisions and solve
problems, evaluating the
credibility and accuracy of
each source and noting any
discrepancies among the data.
All Project Success materials are
technologically integrated for seamless
independent and classroom learning.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.3
Evaluate a speaker’s point of
view, reasoning, and use of
evidence and rhetoric,
assessing the stance,
premises, links among ideas,
word choice, points of
emphasis, and tone used.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Project Success 2: For opportunities
to address this standard, students can
listen to each article through the links
on the Active Teach DVD: Reading:
Reading: Understand author’s purpose,
56, Ask questions, 134
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.SL.
3
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
Project Success 2: See Video and
audio icons associated with the
following activities: Listening and
Speaking, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 22, 24, 28,
34, 36, 38, 41, 48, 50, 53, 57, 62, 64,
66, 70, 76, 78, 81, 83, 90, 96, 98, 100,
104, 107, 110, 114, 118, 120, 126,
127, 132, 135, 138, 141; Writing, 15,
30, 39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134
Active Teach DVD: In class, the
teacher uses the ActiveTeach DVD-Rom
to project the lessons on the board.
Video, audio, flashcards, conversation
frameworks, and other learning
material are available.
eText: Students review the videos,
audio, and eFlashcards from class.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing further practice online with
new listenings and readings, additional
practice exercises, and video-based
exercises.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.SL.
4
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.4
Present information, findings,
and supporting evidence,
conveying a clear and distinct
perspective, such that listeners
can follow the line of
reasoning, alternative or
opposing perspectives are
addressed, and the
organization, development,
substance, and style are
appropriate to purpose,
audience, and a range of
formal and informal tasks.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.5
Make strategic use of digital
media (e.g., textual, graphical,
audio, visual, and interactive
elements) in presentations to
enhance understanding of
findings, reasoning, and
evidence and to add interest.
Project Success 2: What Do You
Think? 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 22, 24, 28,
30, 34, 36, 38, 41, 43, 44, 48, 50, 53,
56, 57, 58, 62, 63, 64, 66, 70, 71, 76,
78, 80, 81, 83, 86, 90, 93, 94, 99, 100,
104, 107, 108, 111, 114, 118, 121,
122, 125, 128, 132, 135, 136, 141, 142
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6
Adapt speech to a variety of
contexts and tasks,
demonstrating a command of
formal English when indicated
or appropriate. (See grades
11–12 Language standards 1
and 3 here for specific
expectations.)
Language
Project Success 2: Listening and
Speaking, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 22, 24, 28,
34, 36, 38, 41, 48, 50, 53, 57, 62, 64,
66, 70, 76, 78, 81, 83, 90, 96, 98, 100,
104, 107, 110, 114, 118, 120, 126,
127, 132, 135, 138, 141
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.SL.
5
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.SL.
6
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
Students are encouraged to use the
ActiveTeach DVD and online materials
to complete each writing activity.
Project Success 2: Writing, 15, 30,
39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134
Active Teach DVD: Each writing
activity includes a Check Your Writing
checklist to enhance revising, editing,
and proofreading.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of writing
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
Conventions of Standard English
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.L.1
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when
writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.1a
Project Success 2: Writing, 15, 30,
Apply the understanding that
39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134;
usage is a matter of
Grammar Lessons, 9, 11, 21,25, 35,
convention, can change over
42, 49, 54, 65, 77, 79, 91, 99, 105,
time, and is sometimes
108, 119, 121, 133, 136
contested.
Active Teach DVD: See grammar
videos that accompany this lesson.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
grammar skills.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.1b
Resolve issues of complex or
contested usage, consulting
references (e.g., MerriamWebster’s Dictionary of English
Usage, Garner’s Modern
American Usage) as needed.
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.L.2
Project Success 2: Writing, 15, 30,
39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134;
Grammar Lessons, 9, 11, 21,25, 35,
42, 49, 54, 65, 77, 79, 91, 99, 105,
108, 119, 121, 133, 136
Active Teach DVD: See grammar
videos that accompany this lesson.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
grammar skills.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling when writing.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.2a
Project Success 2: Grammar Lessons,
Observe hyphenation
9, 11, 21,25, 35, 42, 49, 54, 65, 77,
conventions.
79, 91, 99, 105, 108, 119, 121, 133,
136
Active Teach DVD: See grammar
videos that accompany this lesson.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
grammar skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.2b
Spell correctly.
Project Success, Level 2
Teachers select ten words to create a
Unit Spelling Test.
Project Success 2: Vocabulary
Learning Strategy: Group words by
number of syllables, 116, Group words
by part of speech, 130
Active Teach DVD: Flashcards include
correct pronunciation of unit word lists.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
vocabulary skills.
Knowledge of Language
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.L.3
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3 Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts,
to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3a
W.3 Write clearly and demonstrate
Project Success 2: Before You Write &
Vary syntax for effect,
sufficient command of standard English
Write, 13, 26, 37, 52, 69, 85, 95, 111,
consulting references (e.g.,
conventions.
128, 142
Tufte’s Artful Sentences) for
Active Teach DVD: Additional support
guidance as needed; apply an
material exists for all writing activities.
understanding of syntax to the
MyEnglishLab: An online component
study of complex texts when
providing additional practice of writing
reading.
skills.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.L.4
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases
based on grades 11–12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.4a
Use context (e.g., the overall
meaning of a sentence,
paragraph, or text; a word’s
position or function in a
sentence) as a clue to the
meaning of a word or phrase.
Project Success 2: Vocabulary
Learning Strategy: Group by Meaning,
18, Group by Function, 32, Write words
that go together, 88, Group words by
part of speech, 130
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.4b
Identify and correctly use
patterns of word changes that
indicate different meanings or
parts of speech (e.g.,
conceive, conception,
conceivable).
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Vocabulary Learning
Strategy: Group by Meaning, 18, Group
by Function, 32, Write words that go
together, 88, Group words by part of
speech, 130
Active Teach DVD: Flashcards include
correct pronunciation of unit word lists.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
vocabulary skills.
Please note that students use context
clues to complete the conversation
exercises in the Listening and Speaking
activities. See pages: Listening and
Speaking, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 22, 24, 28,
34, 36, 38, 41, 48, 50, 53, 57, 62, 64,
66, 70, 76, 78, 81, 83, 90, 96, 98, 100,
104, 107, 110, 114, 118, 120, 126,
127, 132, 135, 138, 141
Active Teach DVD: Flashcards include
correct pronunciation of unit word lists.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
vocabulary skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.L.5
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.4c
Consult general and
specialized reference materials
(e.g., dictionaries, glossaries,
thesauruses), both print and
digital, to find the
pronunciation of a word or
determine or clarify its precise
meaning, its part of speech, its
etymology, or its standard
usage.
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Vocabulary Learning
Strategy: Group by Meaning, 18, Group
by Function, 32, Write words that go
together, 88, Make Word webs, 102,
Group words by number of syllables,
116, Group words by part of speech,
130
Active Teach DVD: Flashcards include
correct pronunciation of unit word lists.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
vocabulary skills.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.4d
Verify the preliminary
determination of the meaning
of a word or phrase (e.g., by
checking the inferred meaning
in context or in a dictionary).
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Vocabulary Learning
Strategy: Group by Meaning, 18, Group
by Function, 32, Write words that go
together, 88, Make Word webs, 102,
Group words by number of syllables,
116, Group words by part of speech,
130
Active Teach DVD: Flashcards include
correct pronunciation of unit word lists.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
vocabulary skills.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in
word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5a
Project Success 2: For related
Interpret figures of speech
material see: Writing Tip: Description,
(e.g., hyperbole, paradox) in
128
context and analyze their role
in the text.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.L.6
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5b
Analyze nuances in the
meaning of words with similar
denotations.
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Vocabulary Learning
Strategy: Write words that go together,
88
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.6
Acquire and use accurately
general academic and domainspecific words and phrases,
sufficient for reading, writing,
speaking, and listening at the
college and career readiness
level; demonstrate
independence in gathering
vocabulary knowledge when
considering a word or phrase
important to comprehension or
expression.
Project Success 2: Vocabulary
Learning Strategy: Group by Meaning,
18, Group by Function, 32, Draw
Pictures, 46, Write Your First Language,
60, Write Personal Sentences, 74, Write
words that go together, 88, Make Word
webs, 102, Group words by number of
syllables, 116, Group words by part of
speech, 130
Active Teach DVD: Flashcards include
correct pronunciation of unit word lists.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
vocabulary skills.
R.5.3 Analyze transitional language or
signal words (words that indicate
structural relationships, such as
consequently, nevertheless, otherwise)
and determine how they refine meaning,
emphasize certain ideas, or reinforce an
author's purpose.
L1.1 Edit to correct errors involving
frequently confused words and homonyms,
including contractions (passed, past; two,
too, to; there, their, they're; knew, new;
it's its).
Project Success 2: Grammar:
Comparative adjectives, 105,
And/too/either, 133
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Grammar: Too and very,
54, Want to/need to/have to, 99, How
much/how many, 121, And/too/either,
133
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
L1.2 Edit to correct errors in
straightforward subject-verb agreement.
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Grammar: Have/has, 11,
Simple present: Want/need/like, 25,
There is/there are: Statements and
questions, 42, Was/were: Statements
and questions, 49, Future with will, 65,
Simple past: Statements, 77, Simple
past: Questions, 79
Active Teach DVD: See grammar
videos that accompany this lesson.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
grammar skills.
L.1.3 Edit to correct errors in pronoun
usage, including pronoun-antecedent
agreement, unclear pronoun references,
and pronoun case.
Project Success 2: Grammar: Object
pronouns, 91
Active Teach DVD: See grammar
videos that accompany this lesson.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
grammar skills.
L1.4 Edit to eliminate non-standard or
informal usage (e.g., correctly use try to
win the game instead of try and win the
game).
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Use contractions for
speaking and informal writing, 65;
Polite and formal tone, 85; Business
letter format, 111
L1.5 Edit to eliminate dangling or
misplaced modifiers or illogical word order
(e.g., correctly use to meet almost all
requirements instead of to almost meet all
requirements.)
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Grammar: Adverbs of
frequency, 35, Comparative adjectives,
105, Superlatives, 119; Writing, 15, 30,
39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
L1.7 Edit to correct errors in subject-verb
or pronoun antecedent agreement in more
complicated situations (e.g., with
compound subjects, interceding phrases,
or collective nouns).
L1.8 Edit to eliminate wordiness or
awkward sentence construction.
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Grammar: Object
pronouns, 91
L1.9 Edit to ensure effective use of
transitional words, conjunctive adverbs,
and other words and phrases that support
logic and clarity.
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Grammar: Comparative
adjectives, 105, And/too/either, 133
Active Teach DVD: See grammar
videos that accompany this lesson.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of
grammar skills.
L2.1 Edit to ensure correct use of
capitalization (e.g., proper nouns, titles,
and beginnings of sentences).
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Be: Statements and
questions, 9, There is/there are:
Statements and questions, 42,
Was/were: Statements and questions,
49; Writing, 15, 30, 39, 56, 71, 80, 97,
112, 125, 134
Active Teach DVD: Each writing
activity includes a Check Your Writing
checklist to enhance revising, editing,
and proofreading.
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Writing, 15, 30, 39, 56,
71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134
Active Teach DVD: Each writing
activity includes a Check Your Writing
checklist to enhance revising, editing,
and proofreading.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of writing
skills.
College and Career
Readiness Anchor
Standards
Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade
11-12
GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through
Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs)
Project Success, Level 2
L2.2 Edit to eliminate run-on sentences,
fused sentences, or sentence fragments.
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Grammar: Be:
Statements and questions, 9, There
is/there are: Statements and questions,
42, Was/were: Statements and
questions, 49, Comparative adjectives,
105, And/too/either, 133; Writing, 15,
30, 39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125, 134
Active Teach DVD: Each writing
activity includes a Check Your Writing
checklist to enhance revising, editing,
and proofreading.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of writing
skills.
L2.4 Edit to ensure correct use of
punctuation (e.g., commas in a series or in
appositives and other non-essential
elements, end marks, and appropriate
punctuation for clause separation).
L2.3 Edit to ensure correct use of
apostrophes with possessive nouns.
Project Success 2: For related
material see: Be: Statements and
questions, 9, There is/there are:
Statements and questions, 42,
Was/were: Statements and questions,
49, Simple past: Statements, 77,
Simple past: Questions, 79; Writing,
15, 30, 39, 56, 71, 80, 97, 112, 125,
134
Active Teach DVD: Each writing
activity includes a Check Your Writing
checklist to enhance revising, editing,
and proofreading.
MyEnglishLab: An online component
providing additional practice of writing
skills.